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There are delicate spines on the suckers, and larger ones invest the entire internal surface of the gynæcophoric canal, as well as a longitudinal zone at the edge of that side of the external surface that is covered by the other side rolling over it.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald
Even the names of these Baglioni, Astorre, Lavinia, Zenobia, Atalanta, Troilo, Ercole, Annibale, Ascanio, Penelope, Orazio, and so forth, clash with the sweet mild forms of Perugino, whose very executioners are candidates for Paradise, and kill their martyrs with compunction.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds
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